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Genus [134]. Lathrobium. Grav. Fourteen species. 



L. elongatum, Lin. Black ; antennae, legs and terminal 

 half of elytra, pitchy red; four lines; common. PL 18, 

 fig. 9. 

 Genus [135]. Gyrohypnus. Kirby. Twenty species. 



G. cruentatus, Marsh. Atrous shining ; elytra red ; six 

 lines ; common. PL 19, fig. 1. 

 Genus [136]. Othius. Leach. Eleven species. 



O. fulgidus, Payk. Black ; antenna?, elytra, apex of ab- 

 domen and legs red ; five lines ; gardens and roads. PI. 

 19, fig. 2. 

 Genus [137]. Gabrius. Leach. Thirteen species. 



G. suaveolens, Kirby. Black and shining ; elytra opaque ; 

 artennae pitchy ; their base as well as the palpi and legs 

 testaceous ; 2^ lines ; beneath rejectamenta, Norfolk. PI. 

 19. fig. 3. 

 Genus [138]. Cafius. Leach. Five species. 



C. fucicola, Leach. Opaque black; legs slightly pitchy; 

 two to four lines ; beneath marine rejectamenta. PL 19, 

 fig. A. 

 Genus [139]. Bisnius. Leach. Five species. 



B. cephalotes, Grav. Black; elytra aeneous; thorax and 

 legs pitchy; 2f lines ; Norfolk. PL 19, fig. 5. 

 Genus [143]. Heterothops. Kirby. Three species. 



H. binotatus, Kirby. Black and shining ; base of antennae, 

 and legs pitchy ; 2^ lines ; coasts, beneath marine rejec- 

 tamenta. PL 19, fig. 6. 

 Genus [141]. Raphirus. Leach. Thirteen species. 



R. semiobscurus, Marsh. Black, head and thorax shining ; 

 antennae and legs fulvous ; Sj lines ; beneath rejectamenta. 

 PL 19, fig. 7. 

 Genus [142]. Philonthus. Leach. Forty eight species. 



P. politus, Lin. Blackish aeneous ; abdomen entirely black ; 

 head and thorax shining; S^— 5 lines; very common. 

 PL \9 y fig.s. 

 Genus [143]. Quedius. Leach. Thirty-eight species. Dif- 

 fers from Euryporus, Erichs. by the palpi being filiform. 



Q. tristis, Grav. Pitchy black ; antennae and legs pitchy 

 red; 5| lines ; under stones, common. PL 20, fig. I. 

 Genus [144]. Astrap^eus. Grav. One species. Has the ter- 

 minal joint of all the palpi securiform. 



A. Ulini, Rossi. Black, with the base of the antenna, la- 

 brukD, margin of the clypcus, elytra and penultimate seg- 

 ment of the abdomen red ; tibiae and tarsi pitchy ; five 

 lines ; beneath the bark of elms, rare. PL 20, fig. 2. 



